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Bangabandhu not only gave clarion call for liberation but also developed the spirit of 'muktijuddho': Former Indian official

| @indiablooms | Feb 11, 2021, at 04:37 pm

Dhaka/Kolkata: Former Indian civil servant Gautam Bhattacharya feels that the most important contribution of Bangladesh's 'Founding Father'  Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was just not to give the clarion call for liberation but to develop the “spirit of muktijuddho” (liberation war), to make all his people dream of establishing a society based on liberal values.

"But his journey in realizing this dream remained largely unfinished because of his assassination within three years of his coming to power," Bhattacharya said in an opinion published in The Statesman.

"After his assassination in 1975 and after assassination of all top-ranking leaders of his party later in the same year, his daughter Sheikh Hasina had to build up Awami League from scratch and she had to struggle hard to revive and to keep alive the spirit of freedom struggle by isolating the fundamentalist elements in society," he said.

The former civil servant said: "It’s an eternal battle. India by honoring Bangabandhu in a year when Bangladesh is going to celebrate 50 years of its independence, salutes this spirit that Sheikh Mujib had created, which is still the driving force of society under the leadership of his daughter."

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